Fennec Foxes

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The Fennec Foxes are nocturnal creatures. They are very agile, good jumpers, and quick diggers. They can jump as high as 2 feet and can make a horizontal leap of 4 feet from a standing position. It is a very difficult and unusual jump for their size. As with other nocturnal animals, these foxes have binocular vision that is usual for such animals like cats, alligators, and some other nocturnal vertebrates. That is why they can see well in the dark.

Fennec Foxes - Some Basic Facts

Fennec Foxes - Some Basic Facts - Names:

English: Fennec, Fennec fox. French: Fennec. German: Fennek, Wustenfuchs. The name of the animal is composed of the following parts; the first one is Fanak that is the Arabic word for "fox." The word zerda seems to come from the Greek xeros, which means "dry." The 'x' is often transliterated to a 'z' when the zzzzz sound is preferred. Vulpes is Latin for "fox" and is the genus name for the "true foxes."
Class: Mammalia.
Order: Cadnivora.
Family: Canidae.
Genus and Species: Vulpes (fennecus) zedra.
Classification: These furry animals are the smallest of all canines.

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Fennec Foxes - Physical description:

Size: Height at shoulders about 8 inches; weight 3 to3 ? lbs.
Range: Deserts of North Africa, throughout the Sahara including Morrocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, south to the Sudan to approximately 17ø N. One sighting was made in the Sinai in the late 1970s. No recent sightings have been made there.
Habitat: Desert and semi-desert.
Diet: Mostly carnivorous; mainly insects, lizards, rodents, sometimes birds and plant material (fruit and berries).
Life Span: 10 - 12 years.
Status: Fennec Foxes are rare in the first place, but they are destroyed by native desert people for no apparent reasons.